There will always be a part, and always …

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Johnson

There were many ways of not burdening on…

There were many ways of not burdening one’s conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Richard von Weizscker

There were always people like the pope. …

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don’t create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Andrew Schneider

There was this huge world out there, ind…

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Albert Einstein